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Post by The Archivist on May 20, 2017 21:08:04 GMT -5
I think some of this has been posted elsewhere on this site, but no that we have a workshop, thanks PD, I am going to make use of it.
This information was originally posted elsewhere by the original poster on Tue May 23, 2006 1:49 pm. So as the Keeper of the Files from The Drive I am going to be posting those original posts in those files and restoring the hidden legacy of the Original Owner of The Drive. Nost of what I post on this forum comes from The Drive.
So here we go,
Consider the following as setting for a D&D campaign world, which would interest you the most and why? Note: in all cases consider that the setting noted does not have gunpowder, ie no guns or cannons.
1. Sub-saharan African Kingdoms
2. Southeast Asian Kingdoms
3. Feudal Japan Bushido, Sengokou, Usagi Yojimbo
4. Ancient China
5. Mongolia - Ghengis Khan style
6. Elizabethan England remember no gunpowder
7. Early or mid-Dark Ages Europe/western Asia
8. 12th-16th century Korea
9. Pre-Sengoku Japan - Heian-kyo, Nara, Asuka, Yamato
10. Byzantine Empire
11. Roman Empire - first 500 years
12. Roman Empire - second 500 years
13. Mesopotamian Empire
14. Like the Barbary coast in the Middle Ages
15. The Last Ice Age
16. Viking 800-1100 AD
17. Polynesia in its heyday of colonization
18. Egypt
19. The Iroquois Nation
20. Easter Island
21. Mu
22. Atlantis
23. The Zulu Nation
24. Mogul India
25. Eskimo
26. The Irish
27. The Scots
28. The Welsh
29. Persia
30. Central and South American Indians
A. Aztec
B. Maya
C. Olmec
D. Inca
E. Toltec
31. Plains Indians w/horses
32. Huns
33. Ancient Greeks
34. Ottoman Empire
35. Phoenician
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Post by The Archivist on May 20, 2017 21:11:32 GMT -5
In reply to a comment about Atlantis,
Atlantis, and Mu, are on the list as a joke; since so many people believe in them and spend so much time and energy trying to prove they exist.
Later this was added
Besides they make great settings and you can do anything with them that you want.
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Post by The Archivist on May 20, 2017 21:13:08 GMT -5
Then there was a comment about "you'll be saying "The Face" in the Cydonia region of Mars is just a natural phenomenon." And the reply was, No, not at all, everyone knows that Mars is alive.
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Post by The Archivist on May 20, 2017 21:34:38 GMT -5
A great book called the Dictionary of Imaginary Places was recommended by someone and I have picked up a copy over the last couple of years.
I will be adding more material to this thread.
As an aside the original poster to the project Worldbuilding - ideas and Resources was asked "Wow. How are you going to organize this one??" "The organization required for this boggles the mind. Don't you already have 8 pages of links on DF?"
The reply was
I am giving it some thought and since you have already started this link, I will post some of my organization ideas here and I am open to any and all suggestions. I thinking about listing categories and then indexing the categories in a sticky somewhat similar to what I am trying to do with the mythological creatures. I will list some thoughts on what the categories should be here in a few days. Everyone is free to post their ideas of what categories there should be. If there are enough categories we can provide more than one index thread so it is not too congested. I will probably break the index in mythological creatures into multiple stickies as it grows, but right now just trying to get some stuff entered.
I am looking forward to seeing your contributions and those of others. And yes 8 pages of links and comments on DF, but there would be close to 20 pages right now if I had more time, but since I don't I want to put together the best of the best stuff and I need you all to look at what I (and you) put up and help me decide what is really useful and what is second tier stuff.
I will have to look and see what still exists on DF if anything and I have found that a lot of links to sites are dead and the Internet Archive only revives some of them.
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Post by hengest on Mar 7, 2021 19:52:58 GMT -5
Addendum to #10:
Outskirts of Byzantine Empire, central culture for campaign is hoping to seem as Byzantine (Roman) as possible, while also starting to assert itself as an independent entity.
Re-skin as necessary to avoid having Christian rituals turn into sources of "magic," etc. But structurally would be a gold mine.
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